Quotes About Oppression

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent.

We must speak out against racism and fascism in any form, at any scale, any time they rear their ugly head.

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they were often owned by aristocrats and treated, at best, as entertainment and, at worst, as pets.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.